Some Americans worship cops as a part of their political identity. They're the "Free-thinkers" that all seem to act identically and get their opinions handed down to them from US Reich wing media and internet personalities.

One thing about this post though is that the police DO protect and serve, it's just who they're protecting and serving (hint: it's the wealthy and their businesses)

[–] medgremlin@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I highly recommend the six part mini series Robert Evans did called "Behind the Police" as a subset of his "Behind the Bastards" podcast.

[–] generalEdo@lemmy.fmhy.ml 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I recommend A Tradition of Violence about the LA police gangs. Behind the police was....insightful

[–] Thwompthwomp@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Even Throughline had a history of policing episode (NPR, so liberals); and even their takeaway from what I remember was: police just come from slave patrols and solely exist to maintain existing power structures.

I think I have a verso book “End of Policing” by vitals, but have gotten around to reading it yet … and maybe I should!